On 2008-05-23, Johannes Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just starting with Python and am extremely unexperienced with it so > far. Having a strong C/C++ background, I wish to do something like > > if (q = getchar()) { > printf("%d\n", q); > } > > or translated to Python: > > if (p = myfunction()): > print p > > However, this "assignment and comparison" is not working. What's the > "Python way" of doing this kind of thing?
p = myfunction() if p: print p In Python, assignment isn't an operator, it's a statement. The condition in an if/while has to be an expression, not a statement. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list